On 28 June 2016 20:10:15 GMT+01:00, Pedro Cordeiro <pedronar...@gmail.com>
wrote:
>> << HttpMethod::post() >> // equivalent to static method-call
>> HttpMethod::post()
>>
>
>What would this, specifically, do? Would it call HttpMethod::post()
>when
>the class gets instantiated and return its return on a
>ReflectionClass::getAnnotations()? Why is it necessary to be able to
>evaluate expressions on annotations?
I'm not sure if it's definitely necessary, but the stated use case was for
factories / named constructors. PHP only has one constructor per class, so it's
not uncommon to have static createFromX methods.
Since this will eventually evaluate as "new Foo(42)":
<< Foo(42) >>
The idea is that this would be available to call a factory instead:
<< Foo::fromRoman('XLII') >>
The neat thing being that by limiting the options to this, you can still
extract a class name for every annotation.
I say "eventually", because as proposed, this won't actually happen until you
explicitly ask for the "instance" of the annotation. See previous examples.
Regards,
--
Rowan Collins
[IMSoP]
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